On Monday 01 August 2005 08:27, David Goodenough wrote: >On Monday 01 August 2005 13:00, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> New 3.1 install, got x working, sorta. >> >> I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to the kde >> desktop, hints please. >> >> Also, since I've got cups working here, I thought I'd point a >> browser at http://localhost:631 on that box and and see if I could >> get that to work. Unforch, no page exists, and according to >> aptitude, no package named cups exists. > >The CUPS package on Debian is called cupsys, No idea why but it >is. Maybe the name cups was felt to be too generic. The best >way to find such things in future is to use:- > >apt-cache search > >to which you can pass keywords and the like to look for, so >"apt-cache search cups" would, amongst many others, tell you >that the package was called cupsys. > >David
Found it, had aptitude install it. Haven't tried to see if it works yet though. Thanks. I noted when I had synaptic running that there was a package already named cups but its description wasn't indicative of the Common Unix Printing System. cups is so generic these days that I'd vote to rename that other package in a millicesond... > >> Howto fix this, please? >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
